roadside redux
has a similar footprint, but
this time, it has an actual
foundation below it, and acres
of brilliantly engineered site
work surrounding it involving
massive subterranean culverts.
In the old days, the happy people
sipping their cocktails at the bar
likely never suspected that the
footings of the structure that
Seesaw built actually sat in the
dirt, and that millions of gallons
of snowmelt and rainwater,
cascading off the mountainside
and overflowing from the ponds
and streams above, flowed
directly underneath the floor,
mere inches below the soles of
their shoes. How the whole pile
of logs never floated off like an
ark all the way down onto the
road below, no one knows.
The dining room seats 60 or
so, there is a room off to the
side for private dining, and, of
course, there is the bar, now
with a little more elbow room
than before. In the lower level
there is a grand space called
The Distillery, with a vast cask
room. Prins says, “To start, we
are making our own craft brands
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